Higher and faster
Subtitle: memoir of a pioneering Air Force test pilot
By: Robert M. White and Jack L. Summers ; foreword by Neil A. Armstrong
Contributors: Summers, Jack L., 1939-
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780786449897
Subjects: United States. Air Force; United States; Test pilots; Officers; Biography
Description: "In 1961, pilot Robert W. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth. This is his story, tracing his childhood, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, and his rise as an experimental test pilot in the Air Force"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The formative years; title: Up in the air junior birdman; title: My first war; title: A guest of the enemy; title: Career management 101; title: A pilot's dream; title: A brief history lesson; title: The fun begins; title: Riding the rocket; title: Higher and faster; title: Distractions, decorations, and disaster; title: Goodbye Edwards, hello Bitburg; title: Another war; title: The FX program; title: Home again; title: Back to school; title: The last stop; title: Going home; title: Reflections.